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HEAD AGAINST THE WALL (255 pp.)-Hervé Bazin-Prentice-Hall...
...rakehell son is an old favorite of French fiction, and so is the mean-spirited bourgeois father who fails to understand him. From this familiar combination, a truculent French novelist named Hervé Bazin has written a fresh if uneven novel...
Louvre Curator Germain Bazin adds his own comment on Satan in the 20th century: "Never before has Satan had such powerful means at his disposal: he now has his death factories, laboratories of suffering in which human nature can be tortured, disfigured and degraded . . . Dispossessed of nature, his former kingdom, Lucifer now seems to have installed himself at the very center of human intelligence, which has been far too ready to put itself on a level with God, playing with the forces it has mastered without having the humility to admit that the total chain of cause and effect must...
...Molokai eight years ago went Father d'Orgueval, 53, descendant of an aristocratic French family, scholar and orator, friend of the late Novelist Rene Bazin. A Wartime chaplain, much-decorated, he lost his voice from gassing, volunteered thereupon to work at Molokai for the Congregation of Picpus* which has charge of it. Within the past year Father d'Orgueval has been visited by Father Joseph A. Sweeney of the Maryknoll Fathers in Ossining, N. Y. Last week it was learned, by letter from Maryknoll Sisters in Honolulu, that Father d'Orgueval, too, may now begin his sermons...
...characters as they would write of themselves. In her latest novel Authoress Delmar writes of three women and takes pains to show, not only that they lived, but that they lived too long. The thesis would swamp the book if the characters did not keep bailing it out. Katherine Bazin hates life after her husband leaves her, nurses her tuberculosis in hopes of death. When her husband unexpectedly returns she longs to live, but she dies. Her daughter Lou is happy when she and her husband Chappy are poor. When her baby son dies she almost dies too. Chappy becomes...